Thought I had heard $40k for I suppose a 5 month stint.
How long is the season you would be scraping by o the lower amounts there
What crowds do they get
Starts early Jan and grand final is this week. So 3 to 4 months and a bit of a pre season too. Crowds are awful. Semi final last week at the MCG had 6,000 at it. Games might average 1,000 or so.
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must be loss making
do the government fund it?
makes sense to keep it going though
do many girls play underage? Netball seems to be the big one over there & swimming of course for girls
Meath manager is right, woeful sport to watch.
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Not sure about funding. I’d say the AFL props it up and likely includes fox sports to help with tv coverage. Wouldnt have a notion on underage playing numbers or anything. Long time since i was out there but it never registered with me at all that any girls played it to any level at all. As you say, netball is the main one and many local afl clubs are affiliated as a combined afl and netball club.
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Cricket coming on, and soccer ball.
Swimming is also a big one there.
Jesus, that’s fuck all to live on
yeah I doubt they would all be relying on it full time. Hard to fit another job into that sort of schedule where you’d have to take 6 months off, but no other way around it. Or being a student or something like that.
You wouldn’t be hitting the CBH until 4am every weekend that’s for sure.
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Women’s gaelic football is pretty awful. Men’s Aussie Rules is terrible shite.
I can’t even begin to imagine how bad women’s Aussie Rules is.
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Its 10 times worse thsn women’s gaelic football.
Actually it’s pretty good tbh.
Ladies football is fairly good by women’s sports standards
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I think it’s pretty good by sports standards in general
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A few trans goal keepers and it’d be as good as the mens.
I have made that point a few times. It is a far greater spectacle than camogie and it is mainly due to the fact that it the ladies play a fairly simplistic style of football compared to the mens game. They get the ball and go forward/attack with it and play at tempo rather than hand passing it back and sideways.
There is no packed defences or sweepers either. Camogie even when played by the better I/C sides is still a rather headless game tactically and in terms of use of the ball.
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